UCLA调查显示：加州亚裔租客最少申请租金援助

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4/12/2022

根据上周发布的一份报告，「在新冠疫情中，加州有色人种租户的住房不安全仍然存在」，只有25%受到租金困扰的亚裔低收入家庭申请援助，白人租户的这一比例为48%。在加州所有的种族群体中，亚裔比例最低。

报告还发现，加州申请政府援助的亚裔只有11%获得援助，白人家庭这一比例约为21%。

洛杉矶加大（UCLA）的社区知识中心主任，也是该研究主要作者Paul M. Ong强调，语言障碍以及缺乏外展和对该项目的教育等问题，仍然是获得援助的障碍。

「我们从其他项目中了解到的情况，可能也适用于这个项目，那就是存在文化和语言障碍」，Ong说，「在获取信息、获得知识和通过申请流程方面，这显然是一个问题。尽管一些公共机构确实尝试提供多语言访问，但通常实施得并不十分有效」。

根据2020年人口普查数据，亚裔人口是美国增长最快的种族群体，其中包括超过2000万在人口普查中自我认知为「亚裔」的人。超过一半的亚裔、非裔和拉丁裔房客正在努力跟上租金，而白人家庭的这一比例仅为8%。

该报告发布之际，加州立法者已将仍在等待州资助的租户驱逐保护延长至6月30日。加州已获得超过50亿元联邦租金援助。报告发现，总体而言在加州，14%有现金拮据情况的租户拖欠租金，15%则担心被驱逐。

Ong说，许多移民担心领取援助金会对移民身份产生负面影响。他补充说，这引发了人们对他们被视为公共负担或依赖政府的质疑，这是一项拒绝给予移民公民身份的规则。

「我们的许多移民还没有归化公民」，Ong说，「虽然公共负担不一定直接适用，但移民经常担心被定义或归类为公共负担，担心这会使他们的移民身份面临风险」。

该报告还发现，拉丁裔申请援助的比例是39%，接受援助的比例是14%，排在第二低。

为加州有色人种社区服务的草根组织InnerCity Struggle的副主任Henry Perez说，让更多的社区成员参与进来可以解决租金援助方面的一些障碍。

「加州需要与社区中值得信赖的组织合作，这些组织可以在拉丁裔和亚裔社区进行宣传」，Perez补充道，倡导者最多需要两个小时来帮助租户浏览申请流程，「需要这种投资才能接触到这些社区，并真正引导他们完成整个过程」。

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Urge for Renters and Landlords to Apply for Rent Relief As Soon As Possible

Congress has provided over $46.5 billion to help renters and landlords across the country to ensure that no renter loses their home during a global pandemic

By SouthPasadenan.com

8/19/2021

*FILE PHOTO: Eric Fabbro | SouthPasadenan.com News | Representative Judy Chu*

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On Thursday, Rep. Judy Chu (CA-27) was joined by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), Chinatown Service Center, and Neighborhood Legal Services Los Angeles to encourage more tenants and landlords to apply for the California COVID-19 Rent Relief program.

Congress has provided over $46.5 billion to help renters and landlords across the country to ensure that no renter loses their home during a global pandemic. The State of California has received $5.2 billion of those funds to cover up to 100 percent of unpaid or future rent and may also help low-income renters pay some or all their unpaid utility bills, including gas, electric, water and internet services.

The California’s COVID-19 Rent Relief program greatly improved the application process and more than doubled the number of case managers and local partners to assist applicants in applying. Across the state, over 150 community-based partners, including Chinatown Service Center and other organizations in LA County, are providing application assistance via phone, in-office, and virtual, and have computers/tablets available as well as document drop-off options for applicants in a variety of languages.

Rep Chu issued the following statement:

“The COVID-19 pandemic has created unparalleled financial difficulties for so many families through no fault of their own. And with the Delta variant surging in LA County, ensuring everyone has a safe and stable place to live is more important than ever. Congress wanted to protect renters from eviction both through eviction moratoriums and direct rental assistance, and California has received over $5 billion to ensure everyone remains housed.

I strongly encourage both renters and landlords to submit an application for rent relief at HousingIsKey.com, or to contact a local partner organization listed on that website to help you with your application as soon as possible. And for our immigrant communities, please know that the state does not collect any information regarding your immigration status. So if you are undocumented or a green card holder, you can still be eligible for aid. Please apply today!”

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Is a Housing Market Crash Possible in 2021?

By Mark Mathis

4/22/2021

With the real estate market experiencing surging prices, scant inventories and a backlog of new home construction, many consumers are wondering if what’s gone up must come back down—in other words, are we headed for another housing market crash? Let’s take a closer look.

Think Back to the Great Recession

The unforeseen housing market crash 15 years ago ignited a worldwide recession. Fueled by low interest rates, loose mortgage-lending standards and the nation’s unshakeable faith in homeownership, home values rose at record rates year-after-year. When the housing bubble burst, roughly nine million families lost their homes to foreclosure or short sale between 2006 and 2014. Housing values plunged 30% or more, homeowners lost a collective $7 trillion and it took nearly a decade for most markets to recover. Even today, several real estate markets have not fully recovered.

With the robust market activity we’ve seen lately, could there be a market crash in the near future? The short answer is “not likely.” Today’s market book cannot be sustained completely, but a crash as serious as the one from 15 years ago is unlikely because of a few important factors.

Factor No. 1: More Stringent Lending Standards

Loose mortgage lending practices ultimately brought down some of the nation’s largest banks and mortgage companies. The fallout forced Congress and federal regulators to make significant adjustments that have fundamentally changed how mortgage lending is regulated.

Since then, standards have been raised and the process of obtaining a mortgage is now more transparent. The “anyone can get one” loans of the past are illegal; now borrowers undergo stricter income, credit and asset checks. An entirely new regulatory agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was created to enforce this new regulatory framework. Lenders who do not comply with these standards may face heavy penalties.

As a result, the housing finance marketplace is now more robust and safer than it was 15 years ago. Any dip in the housing market will be cushioned by these stricter regulations.

Factor No. 2: Pandemic Mortgage Forbearance

When the housing market crashed in 2007, the influx of foreclosures pumped housing supply into areas with falling prices and weak labor markets, while also preventing recently foreclosed borrowers from re-entering the market as buyers. According to the Federal Reserve, foreclosures during a time of high unemployment could depress prices, plunging homeowners across the country deeper into negative equity.

However, in the pandemic era, the effects of mass unemployment bear little resemblance to the Great Recession, thanks in large part to forbearance programs that have allowed homeowners to postpone their monthly mortgage payments without suffering penalties.

As of early March 2021, 2.6 million homeowners’ mortgages were in such forbearance plans. As the pandemic economy has slowly recovered, many homeowners have resumed their employment, and thus their home payments. According to CoreLogic, by the end of 2020, overall mortgage delinquencies declined 5.8% due to the forbearance program. The share of mortgages 60 to 89 days past due declined to 0.5%, lower than 0.6% in December 2019.

Housing Market Crash

It’s worth noting that serious delinquencies—defined as 90 days or more past due, including loans in foreclosure—increased when owners who owed large amounts left forbearance. By year end 2020, the serious delinquency rate was 3.9%, up from 1.2% in December 2019.

Factor No. 3: Most Homeowner’s Cushion—Equity

Equity is the difference between the current market value of your home and the amount you owe on it. In other words, it’s the portion of your home’s value that you actually own. Equity can be an incentive to stay in your home longer; if prices rise—something we’ve seen almost universally across the country in recent months—your equity increases, too.

Why does this matter? Simply put, higher levels of equity cushion homeowners from default when home values fall.

Over the past decade, American homeowners have enjoyed housing stability and growth, building up large home equity reserves. In the third quarter of 2020, the average family with a mortgage had $194,000 in home equity, and the average homeowner gained approximately $26,300 in equity over the course of the year. In contrast, 2009 saw nearly a quarter of the nation’s mortgaged homes valued for less than the amount their owners actually owed on those mortgages.

Factor No. 4: Price Growth Will Slow Down, but Continue

The sales boom followed the outbreak of the COVID-19 and surprised many real estate economists. Like most other business sectors, real estate was expected (if not required in many locations) to lock down. But by mid-April, sales were soaring as buyers, many of them millennials, took advantage of record-low mortgage interest rates. Through the remainder of 2020, rates remained below 3%, and existing home sales reached their highest level in 14 years.

A Moving Target

While no one can say for sure what will happen with the real estate sector, most experts are confident that we’ll experience a market dip, but certainly not a crash. In the meantime, there’s plenty of work available for motivated real estate professionals. Find out how Homes.c om can help you connect with the current market of active buyers and sellers here!

Source: https://rismedia.com/2021/03/25/housing-market-crash-possible-2021/

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DIY Landlord – Renting out Properties Safer and Quicker!

By David Chen

4/15/2021

Q. We purchased our first home some years ago, and are about to move to another home. We are considering to keep our first home as an income property. We heard of the free ads on CRAIGSLIST and zillow.com, but some landlord friends told us it could be a challenge to find qualified tenants through CRAIGSLIST and zillow.com. Is there any way to rent our property out quicker and safer with minimum cost? We are the kind of persons who would like to try things ourselves, and have some spare time.

A. You may have already done the initial research and have figured out the range of monthly rent of your property.

If the monthly rent is low such as $1600.00 or below, you may want to do it through CRAIGSLIST, https://postlets.com/, zillow.com, or similar web sites. The renters interested in the low-priced rentals may not go to the Realtors community for assistance.

If the monthly rent is $1600.00 or above, you may want to consider listing your rental on brightmls.com for the Realtors community to market it for you.

Bright MLS is made up of nine forward thinking MLSs (43 Associations) in the Mid-Atlantic region who put aside their differences and came together with a shared vision to help solve MLS market overlap and empower everyone to get more out of the MLS. Bright will serve parts of 6 states plus Washington, D.C. encompassing 85,000 real estate professionals who serve over 20 million consumers and facilitate approximately 250,000 transactions a year that are valued at more than $70 billion.

Dozens of public real estate websites (such as: zillow.com, redfin.com, brightmlshomes.com, etc.) pull data from brightmls.com through syndication. In a few hours, your listing will show up on dozens of websites and will get the maximum exposure. It is a lot quicker and safer finding qualified tenants than doing it through CRAIGSLIST and zillow.com. You may talk with a Realtor for assistance. Please be aware some Realtors take rental jobs, some don’t.

Over the years I have helped some landlords in the community renting their properties out with very low cost. A popular arrangement is to help the landlords ‘DIY’, which has been working well for those experienced landlords.

The good side of ‘DIY’ is that the landlords can ‘screen’ the potential tenants from the very beginning, have 100% control of the whole process, and enjoy the feeling of “on top of things”.

If you prefer minimum service, I can help you ‘DIY’:

1. I provide CMA, list your rental on brightmls.com, put a realtor’s lockbox at the front door if needed, provide the access log (if needed), support you through the whole process.

I charge a flat fee for the minimum service.

2. If you would like me to prepare the lease or review the lease, there is another reasonable flat fee. This service is optional.

3. You answer phone calls, work with the tenant (if the tenant doesn’t have an agent) or the tenant’s agent, run credit check, verify employment, check references, etc.. You pay the tenant’s agent (if there is one) directly on the move-in date – usually 25% of first-month rent.

If you need full-service, the commission is first-month rent – which includes the commission to be paid to the tenant’s agent.

If you need any customized service (between minimum service and full-service), we can work out an agreement.

Some information:

CMA stands for Comparable (some called Competitive) Market Analysis, that will help you determine the market value of your property for sale or for rent.

I use Sentry-key lockbox. Any Realtor with membership of NVAR (Northern Virginia Association of Realtors) or any other VA Realtors association can access and show the property.

The access log tells when the agents enter the property and their contact info. which can help you follow up with the agents.

If you like the DIY experience, I would recommend you to use the minimum service.

Please feel free to reach me if you need any assistance.
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David Chen
Realtor (Licensed in VA) | Neighborhood Specialist (McLean, Falls Church, Vienna)
Libra Realty, LLC
dchenj@gmail.com
703-395-5406

Last update: 4/15/2021

Websites that will show your flat fee mls listings

4/15/2021

Almost all real estate websites that offer the ability to search brokerage listings use a data feed from the MLS called Internet Data Exchange (IDX) to pull in listing data. Depending on the number of sites tapping into your MLS, your listing could appear on hundreds of websites. We do not control the content of any of the websites listed below. updated periodically & subject to change at any time Here are some examples of national websites by area that pull listings from the MLS:

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